Writer as Tour Guide
The enemy of this task is fixation and tangent.Read
On Unreliable Narrators
When a writer hopes to trigger a realization in the reader that the character is not on their rockerRead
Delivery of Detail Technique
Ask yourself, what is the environment doing to my character?Read
Scene Choice
Your readers want scenes about the stuff that lives at the center of a protagonist’s heart.Read
Truisms in Narrative — With Don DeLillo
The truism broadens the perspective of the story, and can in effect widen its themes.Read